Frances Hasso's Books

A vivid account of Palestinian life, death, and reproduction during and since the British colonial period in Palestine.

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Bringing together a vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, oral histories, and interviews, Buried in the Red Dirt tells a story of life, death, reproduction and missing bodies and experiences during and since the British colonial period in Palestine. Using transnational feminist reading practices of existing and new archives, the book moves beyond authorized frames of collective pain and heroism. Looking at their day-to-day lives, where Palestinians suffered most from poverty, illness, and high rates of infant and child mortality, Frances Hasso's book shows how ideologically and practically, racism and eugenics shaped British colonialism and Zionist settler-colonialism in Palestine in different ways, especially informing health policies. She examines Palestinian anti-reproductive desires and practices, before and after 1948, critically engaging with demographic scholarship that has seen Zionist commitments to Jewish reproduction projected onto Palestinians. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

After a body is found on a Florida fishing boat, a vacationing PI and his wife must cast a wide net . . . After Capt. Cy Martingale’s boat is docked in Key West, a passenger is left behind—not just dead drunk, but dead. Pat and Jean Abbott are in town for some rest and relaxation, but the captain is a friend and he wants their help. Unfortunately, what he wants help with is getting rid of the body, since he doesn’t really trust the local police. Pat Abbott is not about to be an accessory to murder, so he turns to another kind of captain: his friend on the force in New Orleans. They’ll have to debate their theories of the case before they can reel in the killer . . . Praise for the Pat and Jean Abbott Mysteries “One of the more interesting married teams of detectives . . . A sort of globetrotting Nick and Nora.” —Thrilling Detective “Lively and exciting.” —The New York Times “[A] well-plotted and mystifying case.” —Saturday Review

A family gathering and a body on the beach keep the sleuthing couple busy in this tale of “ample suspense, and breathless conclusion” (Saturday Review). Pat and Jean Abbott are in lovely Laguna Beach, invited to visit some distant relatives at the Black Cypress estate. But the invitation is more professional than personal, since Pat is a PI and family member Enid Ponsonby appears to be targeted by a killer. Whether her disagreeable personality has anything to do with it remains to be seen—but in the meanwhile, the Abbotts will have to untangle multiple mysteries involving a knife thrower, a dead New Orleans gangster, and a tidal wave of potential suspects . . . “Skilled and sometimes scary.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “One of the more interesting married teams of detectives . . . A sort of globetrotting Nick and Nora.” —Thrilling Detective

Consuming Desires examines new forms of marriage emerging in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates in reaction, in part, to the governments' increasing attempts to control sexuality with shari'a law.

Consists of v. 2 and 4 of Berdan and Anawalt's The Codex Mendoza (4 v. -- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992).

Papers from the 1986 Summer Seminar, "Empire, Province, and Village in Aztec History.

Consuming Desires examines new forms of marriage emerging in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates in reaction, in part, to the governments' increasing attempts to control sexuality with shari'a law.

Open access - no commercial reuse

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Buried in the Red Dirt

Buried in the Red Dirt

Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan

Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan

Buried in the Red Dirt

Buried in the Red Dirt

Diary of an Idle Woman in Italy

Diary of an Idle Woman in Italy

Murder on the Purple Water

Murder on the Purple Water

Black Cypress

Black Cypress

Consuming Desires

Consuming Desires

The Essential Codex Mendoza

The Essential Codex Mendoza

Aztec Imperial Strategies

Aztec Imperial Strategies

Consuming Desires

Consuming Desires

Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan

Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan

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